David AG Henderson, PhD

I am a research fellow based at Edinburgh Napier University and affiliated to the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research. I use R to wrangle and analyse large administrative datasets to help inform policy and practice in health and social care. My background is in clinical nursing having worked in Acute Medical Admissions and Medical High Dependency at Raigmore Hospital in Inverness. I also worked part-time at NHS24 as a Nurse Practitioner during my PhD studies.

Research Fellow

March 2019 - Present · Edinburgh Napier University/ Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research (SCADR)

My research investigates interactions between health and social care using a large linked administrative data cohort containing over 1.1million individuals over the age of 65 in Scotland. The dataset includes information on demographics, prescribed medicines, unscheduled health care use, and any records identified in the Scottish Government collected Social Care Survey.

Research Associate

Nov 2018 - Feb 2019 · Urban Big Data Centre, University of Glasgow

Nurse Practitioner

June 2015 - October 2018 · NHS24

Staff Nurse

June 2011 - June 2015 · NHS Highland

Acute Medical Admissions & Medical High Dependency

Staff Nurse

April 2010 - June 2011 · NHS Highland

Cardiology step-down and General Medical

Healthcare assistant

January 2008 - April 2010 · NHS Highland

Nurse Bank

Assistant Director & Locations Scout

July 2003 - September 2006 · Self-employed

Worked for many media companies including BBC and ITV on a variety of broadcast programming including dramas such as Monarch of the Glen and River City as well as live productions such as BBC Scotland's live Hogmany show.

Lance Corporal

Nov 1995 - October 2002 · HM Forces

Infantry solder in 1st Battalion the Highlanders (Seaforth, Gordons & Camerons). Main duties as a drummer in the regiment's Pipe's and Drums and as a platoon signaller in the machine gun (GPMG/SF) platoon

PhD. in Urban Studies

2015 - 2019 · College of Social Sciences, University of Glasgow

Thesis: Multimorbidity and social care: exploiting emerging administrative datasets in Scotland

MRes in Health research

2013 - 2015 · University of Stirling

PGCert in Advanced Practice

2012 - 2013 · University of Dundee

BSc in Nursing

2006 - 2009 · University of Stirling

Journal Articles

2019. David AG Henderson, Jennifer K Burton, Ellen Lynch, Julie Rintoul, Dave Clark, Nick Bailey. Data Resource Profile The Scottish Social Care Survey (SCS) and the Scottish Care Home Census (SCHC). International Journal of Population Data Science. 4 (1).

Proceedings

2019. David AG Henderson, Iain Atherton, Nick Bailey, Colin McCowan, Stewart Mercer. Association between receipt of social care and multimorbidity: evidence from a population-sized cohort in Scotland. International Journal of Population Data Science. 4 (3).

2018. David AG Henderson, Nick Bailey, Colin McCowan, Stewart Mercer. Multimorbidity and access to social Care: exploiting emerging administrative data sources in Scotland. International Journal of Population Data Science. 3 (4).

2018. David AG Henderson, Nick Bailey, Colin McCowan, Stewart Mercer. Validation of the Scottish Social Care Survey using data from Renfrewshire Council. International Journal of Population Data Science. 3 (2).

PhD Thesis

Link to GitHub repo showing the RMarkdown files I used to write my thesis.

IPDLN hackathon

Code and output from a hackathon held at the International Population Data Linkage Conference held in Banff, Canada in Sept 2018.

Slides

Slides for various talks I have given

Scottish Local Authority Shapefile in R

Simple code to create a shapefile for plotting in R ggplot2. Raw code for this and all my other projects can be found by clicking the GitHub link on the main title of this page

• Pipe band drumming
• Walking
• Reading